reuters also reports the blast blew out many windows on the 17-story building. the news agency building says several people were injured. >>> that's our broadcast for this hour on "newsline." we'll be back with more news in half an hour. i'm michio kijima in tokyo. thank you for watching. bye-bye.

and christa friedland, from reuters digital.ition of "your money." we're fully staffed 24/7 here at cnn. we're watching what is going on on capitol hill in the senate now interpreting that, figuring out what the options are. jean and her team at money.com are crunching the numbers and explaining what this means to

sorry reuters and the wall street journal they all said the united states was sending arms through egypt to the rebels that it's reported it's. you meant it we know that it's not because i didn't forgive me for interrupting so you're saying there are several sources and state officials that admit to funneling weapons into the country but let's let's just clear something up as i was saying earlier there's an argument being made that if you supply weapons to civilians you're not violating the u.n. embargo but if you're supplying weapons to civilians then surely then all civilians the militants. know they're not civilians number one and you're not civilians they're organized than anybody who knows the geneva convention such as myself who used to serve the geneva conventions when my bread and butter for a time so i know them very well you cannot arm civilians who organize themselves into militias and say that they're civilians they're no longer civilians in fact they are prisoners of war when you capture them. so that that is a false argument this detracting from the fact that weapons are be

host: we're joined by pedro of reuters. as you look at the united states, are there areas where jobs are being created? guest: it's thin pickings these days. it's moff or a story of which places are being created. until a few months ago, you had kind of government-based hubs that were essentially. d.c. is an obvious one. austin, texas is another. strangely businessmark north dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation. host: so they're job hubs? >> ye but based upon government that is now withering. and because of federal level that sharp spending cuts are forth coming. so even those plays are seeing renuds job loss which were supporting pay rolls is now become a drag. and so that's a pretty disturbing trend. >> if you take a look at the map of the united states rrks there sectors of the country gee graphically that have better chances of job hubs as it will? >> you have a huge divide because you have kind of very high end jobs in the usual places that you think of like california, silicon valley or new york city

she tills reuters she never imagined getting the iconic role. there are reports that he wants leonardo dicaprio to play her correspond sta. >>> mike judd says of it time for beavis and butt-head to return. >>> box office take of the latest "harry potter" movie, it is now the top grossing in u.s. history. a lot of money there. now "star wars" has sold twice as many tickets as potter. but we are talking cash here. potter just slid past that sci-fi franchise breaking in over $2.2 billion so far. eye popping numbers like that we got to thinking what would it be like to follow in the boy wizard's foot steps? western the only one wondering. one group calculated how much it would cost to go to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardy. our alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange with the details. how much would it cost? >> reporter: i have to say this. i can't imagine spending my time and figuring this out. i don't know. i can think of at least one or two other things i would rather be doing but that is just me. a bunch of economists at lehigh u

that goes for polling from gallup, quinnipiac, abc news, "washington post," bloomberg, reuters and uscla times. we're now negotiating today and why it won't happen tomorrow. in a moment we'll talk to james carville and carly fiorina,chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has details as does gloria borger. jessica here we are two weeks away from the deadline, still no deal. where do things stand right now? >> reporter: after five days of negotiations and almost eight hours of discussions, practically speaking they are no further along than they were when this thing started last sunday. as you say, the president has said he wants this big deal but this thing broke up today, the meeting ended with the president telling these leader toss go back to their members and ask them what do they think can pass and then report back to the president with something that they believe can pass by this saturday morning. they're not even having a meeting tomorrow. now, despite all that i am told by my sources that there's not a lot of optimism that this particular negotiating process here at the wh

>> there are reports on the bloomberg and reuters that some of the board members are getting antsy. the people on the board that have been with him for 20 years or 30 years, these are not going to be people that split with have either publicly or privately. >> thank you for the news on the board of news corp.. on one more related note, a journalist has been sacked in connection with the phone hacking scandal. the determination, news of the world. one of the best known artists celebrated his brutally realistic works, died at the age of 88. he was renowned for his graphic nude portraits. usually of friends and family painted in his studio. no one was there, and his portrait of the queen caused great controversy. he died after an unspecified illness. after 500 million miles, the u.s. space shuttle program came to an end in florida. the astronauts were greeted by a record crowd that came out to watch a piece of history. they are looking to the future, but is all about celebrating the past. >> three and a half minutes until touchdown. >> of the space shuttle appears high in the night sky

a new reuters/ipsos poll have mitt romney leading michele bachmann in a head-to-head match-up 40% to23% among republicans and independents. >>> in southwestern china he have heavy rains have stranded residents and caused extensive power outages. no injuries have been reported. >>> sicily's mount etna began spewing lava and ash yesterday and continued for nearly 12 hours forcing a local airport to close. etna is europe's largest active volcano. >>> there were no borings on the final famous running of the bulls in spain. there were no injuries from the falls. >>> this might make you think twice about a social networking romance. a detroit area woman is suing a washington state man for more than $8,000 in damages after a six-month romance sparked over facebook went bad. she claims misrepresentation and defamation of character and is seeking to reclaim money spent on gifts and travel. >>> now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. two studies from africa have shown for the first time aids drugs designed to treat hiv can also be used to dramatically reduce

. >>> reuters reports there's an emergency meeting in europe this morning over the debt crisis. they're now possibly spreading to italy. the region's third largest economy. friday italian stocks and bonds tumbled in a massive sell-off. >>> and finally, according to a new survey of college students and graduates, health insurance is the new love potion. 90% of surveyed students and 93% of recent grads said knowing a potential partner has health insurance would make him or her more attractive. >> well cc goes all the way. andre drives the dodgers and tumbles at the tour de france. plus america's world cup women triumph in a thrilling nail-biter against brazil. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather, the heat is stealing the headlines. but thunderstorms will be widespread. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, with time almost gone yesterday the united states was about to make its earliest exit from the women's world cup. and then within a matter of min

reuters is quoting residents of syria who say that two explosions have been heard inside the syrian war college. protests continue against president bashar al-assad. heavy gunfire was heard near the military compound. there is no comment from the syrian authority. in libya, seven large explosions reported overnight in the capital of tripoli are thought to be air strikes by nato fighter planes. four explosions rocked the hotel where much of the international media is stationed. there are no reports of damage or casualties. meanwhile, representatives of colonel gaddafi's government have said that they are ready to hold more talks with senior u.s. officials. the offer comes after more than four months of nato bombing raids. we report from tripoli. >> which one man still dominates life in tripoli? the answer can almost be seen from space. tonight, colonel gaddafi's supporters and build a giant picture of their leader. they say it is -- unveiled a giant picture of their leader. they say it is the biggest banner in the world and a good luck charm. >> do you want to protect him? >> we will pro

there are conflicting reports on bloomberg and reuters that some of the board members are getting antsy. the people on the board who have been with murdoch for 20 or 30 years -- these are not going to be people who split with him either publicly or privately. >> thanks for unpicking the board of news corporation for us. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, saying farewell to the shuttle fleet as atlantic -- atlantis touches down for the last time. what will the future of american space travel holdbacks -- cold? paul women are more likely to contract some of the most -- tall women are more likely to contract some of the most common cancers. but a 37% more likely to develop a tumor. our health correspondent reports. >> we are all at risk of developing cancer, and rising rates mean four in 10 of us will get the disease at some point in our lives. it now seems taller people are the most vulnerable. the study looked at a million people and found the taller they were the greater their risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers. for small women, about 5 foot tall, 75

e-mails uncovered by news international in 2007 contains evidence that the sunday newspaper was paying reuter protection officers for private information about the royal family. it later emerged in the guardian that the funds of prince charles and the duchess of cornwall may have been hacked. in one of the dynamite e-mails, the disgraced royal editor was requesting cash to buy a confidential directory called the green book of the royal family's land mine telephone numbers and all the phone numbers including mobile's of the household staff. a police officer in the royal protection branch had stolen of directory and wanted 1,000 pounds ford, it is alleged. >> not only the royal family, but people who work with them and their friends, it is appalling breach of security. this latest disclosures about systematic wrongdoing at news of the world could not come at a worse time for the papers under, because news corp. is trying dubbed by one of the important business media businesses in the u.k., british sky broadcasting. his news corp. owns just 39% of it. the reason he wants 100% is because bskyb is

times and reuters played up the christian angle. bravic is not a christian, that's impossible.lieving in jesus commits mass murder. the man might have called himself a christian on the net, but he is certainly not of that faith. . >> jon: fox news bill o'reilly this week calling out the new york times and others in the mainstream media how they labeled the radical extremist who terrorized norway last week and o'reilly got a lot of criticism from the comments. >> really? >> yeah, he did. >> that's strange because pains me to say this, agree with bill o'reilly with that statement 100%, that's completely, 100% accurate what he said. as if a passivist guns down people if they put that as the heading. would have said, now, self-identified passivist guns down people, but not, you know, just putting on him he's a christian. of course he's not a christian, that's ridiculous and even, even the way they're trying to portray him as a right wing extremist, he had, he sports a one child policy, government control of private industries, he wants to rid the world of oil consumption, i mean, t

thomson reuters' same-store sales index rose a better-than- expected 6.5% last month. erika miller looks at whether the strength is likely to continue through the back-to- school season. >> reporter: with the sweltering heat wave sweeping across much of the nation, it's hard to think about sweaters and slacks. but if you trust the message in the june sales results, it could be a strong back-to-school season. only three out of 25 retailers in the thomson same-store sales index missed expectations: j.c. penney, stein mart, and fred's. the other 22 stores beat forecasts, the best showing on record. jharonne martis, the analyst who tracks those numbers, is particularly encouraged by gains in the teen sector. >> we consider the teen index a good proxy of discretionary spending. so the fact that they smashed their estimates of 3.3% and came in at 6.5% shows us that parents are feeling a little bit more comfortable with stretching themsleves. >> reporter: but in spite of the big beats by retailers in june, only macy's, t.j. maxx and ross stores boosted their earnings guidance

today, the company was subject to a reuters report that private equity investors want h-p to break up, arguing it is stretched too thin across computers, printers, services, cloud computing and other devices. here's the best and worst of the dow stacked up this quarter. american express and kraft were the leaders, up 14% and 12%, respectively. big banks-- j.p. morgan and bank of america-- brought up the rear, falling 11% and almost 18% since the second quarter began. b-of-a was the biggest loser in the dow today as well. the day after the federal reserve limited the fee banks can charge retailers for accepting debit cards, mastercard and visa dropped from their 52-week highs hit yesterday. both shares were down more than 2.5%. but ebay kept rallying. a few analysts upgraded ebay, thinking it's paypal division will not be subject to the fee limit. watch shares of eastman kodak tomorrow. they lost only a penny during the regular session, but after the close tonight, they dropped as much as 12%, down below $3.20 per share. the company lost a patent dispute against apple and research in m

reuters reports j.p. morgan is close to swapping places with bank of america as america's biggest bank by assets. analysts have been getting more cautious on banks as earnings season begins. j.p. morgan is the fist of the banks to report on thursday. wells fargo was among the weak banking stocks off more than 1%. wells is the latest bank to settle claims from investors losing money in mortgage-backed securities. in this case, it has settled with pension fund investors. several other similar lawsuits remain however. google stock was searching for buyers. shares fell 2.7%. a couple of things today for google. first, morgan stanley's analyst downgraded its view of the stock to equal-weight. the analyst is not convinced google's spending on hiring and compensation will pay off. and just before the closing bell, the company said chairman eric schmidt will testify in september to the senate anti- trust committee. last month, the federal trade commission launched a broad look into the company's business practice

a new reuters poll finds a small majority of economists thinks the u.s. will lose its triple-a rating from a least one major rating agency. we'll hear directly from the rating agencies tomorrow, when executives from standard & poor's and moody's investment services testify on capitol hill. they'll be questioned about the role their industry plays in the debt ceiling debate. >> susie: in tonight's program, we'll detail why every american has a stake in these negotiations and get advice from a wealth manager about what investors should do. but first, we turn to a man who runs a leading independent ratings agency: egan jones. ten days ago, the firm was the first u.s. rating agency to downgrade the country's credit rating from triple-a to double a-plus. joining us now, sean egan, founder and managing director of egan jones. sthawn, -- sean thanks for comig on the program. >> thank you. >> >> susie: tell us why your firm decided to down grade the u.s. credit rating. >> put iting on anything watch as of march 1st. we've been looking at it closely for the past y

moment from reuters. yesterday at the russian embassy you described an approach toward iran on the nuclear issue one of what you called a step by step process whereby the iranians might take steps to address some of the i.a.e.a. concerns and the p five plus one in return would take steps to ease the pressure of sanctions can you shed can you give us details on the kinds of steps you would like to see the iranians take under such an approach and secretary clinton can you address the possibility of easing sanctions early in the process historically i think the administration has been reluctant to do that because of the feeling that to do so would be to give up your leverage at the start of a negotiation. but we shouldn't be near. this issue here and this is yet another example of the fact that there are problems on our agenda we have the same final ains is that this came is to avoid proliferation of nuclear arms but at the same time we do have some individual approaches concerning the way we move to the sku

the thomson reuters/university of michigan final july consumer sentiment index fell to 63.7 in july. it's the lowest level since march 2009. the sentiment reading, which covers how consumers view their personal finances as well as business and buying conditions, averaged about 87 in the year before the start of the most recent recession. >> susie: as we mentioned, wall street wrapping up its worst weekly performance in a year with worries about those debt negotiations, and that weak report on economic growth didn't help either. let's take a look with tonight's "market focus." volatility was the way of the day. here's how the day played out on the s&p 500. you can see heavy selling in the morning on those washington worries, a slight comeback around midday on hopes of a debt deal and a return to selling in the afternoon. that made for little green in the dow 30. i.b.m. was the only dow stock moving higher. at&t unchanged. the rest of the components traded lower, with hewlett- packard taking the biggest hit-- down almost 3%. merck was the dow's second-worst performer. it reported secon

reuters just released a poll of 53 economists. 30 of them said we are going to lose, very likely our tip he will a reputation. martha: wow, what would that mean for americans across the country, stewart. >> reporter: it probably means higher interest rates and a slower economy. if you downgrade us we lose our financial reputation. america becomes more of a risk if you're lending us money. that means you're going to demand a higher interest rate if you lend america money, interest rates probably go up, slowing the economy, making the jobs and housing problems even worse. that is in the long term. the short term affect is we take a hit to who we are, and how we think of ourselves financially. it's a hit to our reputation. martha: so much for american exceptionlism in terms of our economic strength. good to have you here as always. my next guest is a democrat who has changed his stance in the debt debate. he now supports a short-term deal that gets us over this august the 2nd hump. pwhrad to bglad to be joined by texas congressman quair. thank you for joining us. i hope you could hear f

hand in hand with these international banks tourist the managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to d. he says this is known as the selective default that paper that is maturing on august fourth will go to di di di di di that's lower than triple c. and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with a ratings report saying america's that's what the dig there for sell your american debt you need a place to put the cash by greek debt and we'll give you a play all the options on the acropolis ourselves you don't need it i know it's a good point for the gold and sell the acropolis near dad or some of the smaller problem but its own chambers also noted a default on u.s. treasuries a benchmark against which all other debt is measured would dwarf any worries about u.s. credit ratings as global markets would crumble they're pulling out this old canard oh the markets will crumble the world as we know it will and oh it's all over it give us all your money yeah well of co

hand in hand with these international banks there's the managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple say and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with their ratings report saying america's that's where the d. therefore sell your american debt. need a place to put their gas but i agree and will give you a play on the options on the acropolis ourselves we don't need it i am never wore black by the government here and so all the acropolis we're getting started. because reporters next hour. now radiation has been detected in the thyroid's of almost half of all children living in japan's fukushima facility authorities are continuing to study the health effects of the nuclear crisis which sent safety shutters all around the world some like germany have already pledged to close all of its plants but there are countries convinced that there's a safe or alternative as having more reports from beijing. with the global spotligh

work hand in hand with these international banks toure's managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple c. and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with a ratings report saying america's debts were the dig therefore so your american debt you need a place to put the cash but greek debt and we'll give you a ploy leo if. on the acropolis or so's you don't need it i am there for good blood for the go lynyrd so the acropolis regathered are some of the story. they are the forgotten few the russian children suffering from a rare genetic disease which few know how to cure and which can leave them badly scarred and in acute pain until now it's been virtually ignored by the medical establishment but one mother is hoping to change that diapers call reports. she likes dancing and no one would guess the amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements lisa has a rare genetic condition epidermal this is below zero or t

that the boat was really always and only other records that were getting can be pretty much shit to reuters from what he's saying we're hearing reports that the boat did not have a moistens to transport that injured in the first place other reports say that the best seat of the best suit was fully one hundred and twenty people. at the time of the accident there was there were two hundred people on board of the those are also the first same that's one of the engines prove that the captain of the vessel actually knew about it but decided to proceed with the boat to anyway the owner of the boat at the same time is saying that even at that if that was the case and one of the engines did break down it would not. of course this horrible tragedy of reports are saying that course it was a very old ship that was sailing since nineteen fifty five so all of the war could have caused this tragedy but some of the eyewitnesses saying that's where the conditions in the region at the time were very values very strong winds and some of the survivors are actually saying that they were trying to evacuate from

another question place that i give the floor to the reuters. i have a question to mr lover of. what it is that france states that . the un resolution on syria will in no way lead to any military operation.

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hand in hand with these international banks there's the managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple say and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with a ratings report saying america's that's where the dig there for so you american debt you need a place to put that cash by greek debt and we'll give you a play all the options on the acropolis ourselves you don't need a i.m.f. and wore black rather go in there and sell the acropolis regarded our service to our club a. p.r. accident at japan's fukushima facility triggered safety fears around the world forcing some countries to think twice about easing nuclear an injury but for an entry hungry china a things if the demands are so high there's simply no alternative as henry morton now reports if focusing instead on developing new technologies to make tonic clonic safer. with the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following japan's tsunami and the